"Tokyo" Trilogy

Carli 2022-03-23 09:03:12

This film is composed of three short films, which can be considered as showing Japan in the eyes of three foreign directors.

The first "Interior Design" is from Michel Gondry, who once directed "Eternal Sunshine of a Beautiful Mind" - my favorite love movie. It's an interesting story about a girl who doesn't have a job, lives in a friend's house, and is considered useless, and suddenly finds herself transformed into a chair, and at the same time discovers her value as a chair. It's absurd, but it shows a state of life - young people feel that they can't adapt to this society, can't find their own value, and can only exist in a humble state. Of course, it can also be understood to be more positive, saying that young people should lower their stature, might as well start employment from a low starting point, and maybe they can find a position that suits them. The latter way of understanding is very suitable for our country's publicity caliber for college students' employment issues, and can be introduced as a promotional video for our country's employment work.

The second paragraph "Dung" comes from French director Leos Carax. The story is a bit of Shinto: a weirdo who lives in the sewers and only eats flowers, keeps coming out to harass the citizens, causing widespread panic, and even hurting the citizens with the weapons of the Japanese army in World War II, but after capturing him, he found that he could not communicate. Finally, I communicated with him through a foreign lawyer, but his words made the Japanese greatly insulted. The eccentric was eventually sentenced to hang, but he mysteriously disappeared during the execution. To be honest, I didn't quite understand this story. At first I thought that what the director wanted to say was that the ghost of militarism lingers, causing harm to the Japanese people. But what about the lawyers he communicated with, their conversations in court, and the final disappearance of the weirdo?

The third paragraph "Trembling in Tokyo" comes from Feng Junhao. He can be said to be the most powerful Korean director, and his "Memories of Murder" and "Monster of the Han River" represent the highest level of Korean films to a certain extent. This one is also my favorite of the three short films, it is about the love of a super otaku. In order to find a girl he likes, an otaku who has not left the house for 10 years mustered up his courage to go out, but found that the streets were empty, people were already staying at home, and the earthquake only made people go out of the house temporarily. Each home. Artists are always sensitive to some social issues. Perhaps this otaku culture has had a huge impact on Japanese society, so much so that it affects interpersonal communication, social communication, and love. Love is so great that it has earth-shattering power, but the kind of love that has a button on the body and is about to explode, in the final analysis, cannot save people who are increasingly unfamiliar and indifferent.

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